AMSHINOV- no quarter asked,no quarter given

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Saturday, February 25, 2006

Doesn't Anyone Give A Shit?

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Elan Halimi, a 23-year-old telephone salesman , was lured into a trap on January 21, in the southern Parisian suburb of Sceaux. Instead of the date he expected, he was beaten up, bundled into the boot of a car and taken to a room in a nearby apartment block.For three weeks his captors sent threatening messages to his family by telephone and e-mail demanding varying amounts of money. They included an image of Halimi with his face entirely bound in heavy tape. His father was told: “You’re a Jew, you’ve only got to ask around at the synagogue.”But on February 13, the gang’s leader, 25-year-old Youssouf Fofana, ran out of patience. The autopsy shows that Halimi was burned with cigarettes and hit repeatedly with a blunt object. He was then doused in some kind of acid or industrial fluid – apparently to efface forensic evidence – which caused burns over 80% of his body.Naked, bound and gagged, Halimi was dumped – just alive – near a railway line at Sainte-Geneviève-des-Bois. He managed to drag himself a small distance before being discovered by locals, but died on the way to hospital.“If he hadn’t been Jewish, he would not have been murdered,” Halimi’s mother Ruth said.

Friday, February 24, 2006

Malachi Ha'shores

The Midrash claims that when one comes home on Friday night, he is accompanied by two angels --Malach Tov Ve'Malach Ra. If the table is set and there is peace in the home, then the good angel blesses the home, So may it be next week, and the bad angel is forced to say, Ah'main. But if the house is a mess , then the bad angel says, So may it be next week, and the good angel is forced to say, Ah'main!